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The magistrate judge's seat is not a separate court; the authority that a magistrate judge exercises is the jurisdiction of the district court itself, delegated to the magistrate judge by the district judges of the court under governing statutory authority, local rules of court, or court orders. Rather than fixing the duties of magistrate ...
From 1984 until 1997, Judge Grimm worked in private practice handling commercial litigation until his appointment as United States magistrate judge. Judge Grimm has written numerous books and articles on subjects including electronic discovery , civil procedure , evidence and trial practice and lectures frequently on these topics. [ 3 ]
Kidd was born in 1983 in Birmingham, Alabama.He attended Emory University on a full-tuition scholarship, graduating in 2005 with a Bachelor of Arts with high honors. He then attended the Yale Law School, where he was an editor of The Yale Law Journal and the Yale Journal of Law and Policy, as well as editor-in-chief of the Yale Journal of Law and the Humanities.
In Georgia, each county has a chief magistrate, elected by the voters of the county, who has the authority to hold preliminary hearings in criminal cases, conduct bench trials for certain misdemeanor offenses, including deposit account fraud (bad checks), grant bail (except as to very serious felony charges), and preside over a small claims court for cases where the amount in controversy does ...
The Federal Judicial Center is the education and research agency of the United States federal courts.It was established by Pub. L. 90–219 in 1967, [1] at the recommendation of the Judicial Conference of the United States.
He assumed office as a United States magistrate judge in 2016. [3] In that capacity, he presided over the arraignment of actress Lori Loughlin, in her trial for fraud in connection with the admission of her daughters to the University of Southern California, which was part of the larger Varsity Blues scandal.
Gregory James Fouratt is a United States magistrate judge for the United States District Court for the District of New Mexico. He previously served as a United States Attorney for the same district. Early life and education
Michelle Montgomery Pettit (born 1972) [1] is an American lawyer who has served as a United States magistrate judge of the United States District Court for the Southern District of California since 2023. She is a former nominee to be a United States district judge of the same court.